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Overwhelmed then underwhelmed

  Well, welcome back card aisle, you're looking rather ... uh ... disorderly. This was the sight at my neighborhood Target yesterday. As disorganized and scattered as it appears, I can count three different baseball card products (four, if you add the MLB stickers) in just this small crop of the card aisle. This is as many different kinds of base ball card products that I've seen on area store shelves since March. With Covid quarantining and t he inexplicable ransacking of card shelves across the country, I've purchased almost no cards in person for the last six months. (On Twitter I mentioned these were the first 2020 baseball cards I had seen on shelves since March, which isn't quite true. I forgot I picked up a couple of scattered packs of Series two a couple of months ago. That's how forgetta ble Topps flagship is this year). Within that frame are a couple of hanger boxes of 2020 Topps Fire, a half-filled gravity fe eder of 2020 Stadium Club and , up at the to...